Post your setup!

[Tom_1569]

Id have to do some more research... But one of the highpoint cards would still be my bet..

PCI HighPoint Rocket Raid 1640
PCIe HighPoint Rocket Raid 2300

They will give you hardware Raid 5, seem to be good cards. Ive got the 8 port versions of these...

Thanks for the links, ill keep looking into these. Going by wat 50LTRv8 says, is on-board alright, or are these the ones that will wear the hard drives and use more CPU. My current comp has on board raid but i havent played around with it, maybe I can just upgrade my computer and use my current one for a server.

Dude

Most motherboards have RAID onboard these days. You could just simulate RAID using software on your test setup, and then when you buy your machine get a mb with raid.

I have used software raid for about 2 years and all is good. I had one drive fail and it rebuilt it no worries.

I will have to take a pic of my laundy setup and post it here, aircon and all

50LTRv8

Cheers, Ill keep looking into this. Dont have time now suppose to be leaving for a holiday in 2 hours and im not packed :yeah:

 

[50LTRv8]

O.k. Here it is, my Server Room

Here is the aircon duct I had installed (should have seen peoples faces when I asked for this. It was just getting too hot in summer (I am running about 12 HDD's between the 2 machines)

Here is my man hole cover that I will have to get replicated somewhere else (there is no room between the aircon pipe and the hole). I have left this open to allow hot air to go into the roof when the aircon is not on.

Here are the servers

There are 2 comps sitting on a shelf hooked up to a switchbox. There is a monitor in the cupboard so I can see what is happening, although I mainly go through rdp for admin. I also have WSUS running on a vm too apply patches to all the machines on my network.

You will also see in the pic the white box near the compaq sign. This is my 24 port 100MB switch which everything goes through.

 

[fu2]

my setup

Chakra Etermax case
OCZ Stealth Stream 600w psu
AMD Phenom 9600 Quad Core cpu
Asus M3A Mobo
4gb Transend ram
Asus Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512mb
Creative X-fi Extream Gamer sound
Westen Digital Sata2 320gb HDD
Western Digital SATA 200gb HDD
Pioneer DVD-RW
XMS 5.1 surround speakers (going to change soon)
Logitech MX3200 cordless mouse & keyboard

 

[evil_monkey]

sr-gamer:

intel q6600 quad core 2.4Ghz
msi p35 motherboard
4GB geil dual channel ddr2 800Mhz
pcie MSI 8800GT overclocked edition 512MB DDR DVI
samsung 20x sata dvd burner
1TB samsung sata hdd
thermaltake amour case with liquid cooling
600watt JSP PSU with blue led 120mm fan & blue uv reactive sleeving
UV cold cathodes
green uv reactive coolant, green uv sata cables and green uv spiral sleaving
logitech mx5000 bluetooth keyboard/mouse
logitech z 5500 speakers


OS - windows vista home premium

monitor 1 - 22" viewsonic lcd wide screen
monitor 2 - 106 cm sony bravia hdtv via dvi to hdmi connection
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sr-reception

intel core 2 duo e6750 2.66Ghz cpu
msi something or rather motherboard
4GB geil dual channel ddr2 800Mhz
pcie msi 9600GT dvi video card
160gb samsung sata hdd
20x samsung sata dvd burner
sony black 1.44MB floppy drive
lian li atx case with 400watt psu

os - windows vista business
monitor - 22" wide aoc monitor

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sr-workbench

intel pentium 4 socket 775 3.20Ghz (hyperthreading bull****)
asus something or rather motherboard
3GB ddr1 400Mhz
250gb western digital sata hdd
lg something or rather speed dvd burner ide
black gtr atx case with digital temp gauge on the front clear side window exhaust fans etc 350watt psu
agp msi 6200 256MB dvi
microsoft keyboard with fingerprint reader & microsoft usb mouse

os - windows xp pro
monitor - viewsonic 19" widescreen

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laptop

toshiba satelite pro
1.8Ghz centrino
250gb sata hdd
15.4" crystalbrite widescreen
harmon kardon speakers (these crank for laptop speakers )
4GB ddr2
os - windows vista home premium

 

[Trennaa]

Not a bad little setup here..

Toshiba Satellite laptop;
Intel Core Duo CPU @ 2Ghz
1Gb Ram
120Gb Hard disk
Onboard usuals. USB/Sound/Gfx/Lan
Wireless Wifi Internet Wicked speeds considering

 

[yZoH]

I'll post specs to the pc i'm on right now

Nforce3 K8n-neo2 platinum motherboard
2gb ocz ram
AMD64 2200 2.1ghz @ 2.8ghz
300gb wd velociraptor
36gb wd raptor
pioneer 108 burner

umm bout it

toy pc
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intel core2 extreme qx9650
ocz 8gb ram
300gb velociraptor
single nvidia geforce 9800gx2 (soon to be dual)
asus p5e3 deluxe
--- I enjoy it

 

[Dirbatua]

Mine:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.22ghz dual core)
4gb DDR 800 Transend Ram
Gigabye GA-M55SLI-S4 Motherboard
Pioneer 20x Sata Dvd Burner
512mb 8600GT Geforce Silent Pipe
400W True Power Server P/S (not sure what brand)
LG 8162B Dvd Rom
750gb Seagate Sata
500gb W.D Sata
250gb W.D Sata
250gb Seagate IDE
80gb Seagate Sata (Windows)
Not sure what brand case, just brought it cause i could fit 4 120mm Fans and 1 80mm Fan which keeps it from overheating.
Logitech x530 5.1 Speakers
Generic 2.1 Speakers.
20 Inch Viewsonic Widescreen Monitor
Windows XP Professional

and with all the HDD space, ive still run out of ****ing space, ah well, got to buy some 1tb hdds to replace all current hdds soon i rekon.

Looking to get Windows XP 64-bit so that the computer can find more then 3.25gb of ram, then ill upgrade the pc to 8gb ram after that, and i hate windows vista.

 

[Holdfast]

Antec "Nine Hundred" Tower Gaming Case
Cooler Master 850 WATT Power Supply
Intel® Core™2 Duo Desktop Processor E8400
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP
PNY DDR2 800 4GB (Can upgarde to 8gig)
ASUS GeForce 8800GT - 512MB DDR3
Seagate 360GB Barracuda EIDE HDD
Seagate 500GB Barracuda SATA HDD
Pioneer DVD burner
LGE L196WTP-BF BLACK 19" Widescreen LCD
Logitech speakers
Microsoft keyboard and optical mouse
Surge protector
Windows XP SP3
Linux


Found: Chucked out for garbage, which I fixed up.:wax:

An Intel P4 2.4GHZ 478 pin and one stick of 256meg DDR.

I cleaned it up, bunged in a PCI Host Controller for 5 USB2 ports plus a cheap Western Digital EIDE 160 GB HD. Plus it needed a $5 CMOS battery.
She runs quiet and fast. Partioned the 160Gig into 2 x 80gig partitions so i could run XP home edition
The people who through away the computer even left the XP 'product key' attached to the side of the computer:yeah:

Unfortunately the motherboard is a Gigabyte and yeah, it has a few leaking capacitors but still runs well. I might replace them:whistling

It's amazing what people throw away:wax:


Last Desktop is very old but still ok:thumbsup:
Intel P4 2.2GHZ
MSI Mother Board (No leakage in the capacitors yet)
1 Gig of SDRAM
1 x 160 Gig Seagate EIDE hard-drive 'pri'
1 x 20Gig Seagate EIDE hard-drive 'slave'
LG DVD/Cd Combo
Floppy

All the Desktops are on Broadband wireless set-up

 

[tommo82]

Here tis.

Black macbook and DELL 24" Screen

1 Tbyte apple time capsule backup device

And the comms rack for ethernet, phone and TV

 

[PRH]

mines a big blue and silver box wif a blue square light and a little orange one that flashes,its got a tv thing i look at and a thing wif all the letters too,and its got a little doodaa that moves the little arrow round on the tv :thumbsup:
Phillip :wax: